Synopsis Ari Folman, in collaboration with his art director David Polonsky, has transcribed his award-winning 2008 animated biographical documentary into the form that inspired it. In the story, a friend from his military service days in the 1980s tells Ari about the nightmares he's been having related to their experiences during war in Lebanon. Ari speaks with several other friends, as he realizes that he has completely suppressed his memories of those times. Frightened by what he might uncover, he nonetheless decides to look deep and ask hard questions in order to come to terms with his past.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2009-02-17 |
| Size | | Length: | 117 pages | | Height: | 11.0 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 22.1 oz |
Publisher's Note A graphic account of an Israeli soldier's experiences in Beirut during the massacres at Sabra and Shatila follows his recovered memories of his participation in the September 1982 atrocities after having forgotten them for more than twenty years. Simultaneous. 30,000 first printing.
Industry Reviews "A potent and profound document of war and its aftermath done as a cartoon...hallucinatory brilliance in the service of understanding the psychic damage of war." (Describing the film.) (01/22/2009)
"Utilizing frames that seem cut straight from the film, the book threads together Polonksy's darkly gleaming nightmare drawings into a seamless whole." (02/09/2009)
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